Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…
Heart of Darkness
Read by Kristin LeMoine
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and m…
Lord Jim
Read by Stewart Wills
A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in…
The Secret Agent
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The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting …
Antología de Cuentos Fantásticos
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El cuento fantástico es la narración de la realidad que mezcla elementos reales e irreales, extraños e inexplicables, c…
An Outcast Of The Islands
Read by Tom Weiss
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…
Under Western Eyes
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Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is vie…
Typhoon
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Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describe…
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)
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The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony anarchist and agent provocateur of the title, and the plot centre…
The Point of Honor
Read by Mark F. Smith
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor i…
Short Story Collection Vol. 047
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…
The Secret Sharer
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leg…
Nigger of the Narcissus
Read by Tom Crawford
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off…
Nostromo
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Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …
Tales of Unrest
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Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime.Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Poli…
El huésped secreto
Read by Victor Villarraza
La historia de El huésped secreto se abre con una minuciosa descripción del momento previo a la partida, del instante en que e…
The Mirror of the Sea
Read by Peter Kelleher
The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)
Youth, a Narrative
Read by Chris Hughes
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories…
The Shadow-Line
Read by Expatriate
Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of h…
Amy Foster
Read by Bellona Times
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck …
Chance
Read by James E. Carson
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally enti…
Victory: An Island Tale
Read by skoval
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific…
Almayer's Folly (version 2)
Read by Tom Weiss
Almayer’s Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. Kaspar Almayer is a white Eu…
One Day More
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A one-act play. Eccentric (crazy?) Captain Hagberd has been waiting for years for his son to come home from the sea. He has scrimped and sav…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008
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A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…
Modern Essays
Read by David Wales
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
Heart of Darkness (version 3)
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Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wild…
Heart of Darkness (version 4)
Read by Peter Dann
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…
Nostromo (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a…
Short Story Collection Vol. 088
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Once more, we bring you a stellar collection of short stories, selected and read by Librivox readers. Joining regular favorites, such as Kat…
1912: Short Works Collection
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This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fic…
El socio
Read by Alba
Lo primero que escucharon al llegar a la estación fue que el bote de salvamento había regresado con el segundo de a bor…
The Secret Agent (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, Lond…
The End Of The Tether
Read by Peter Dann
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school…
Almayer's Folly
Read by Kristel Tretter
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love…
Lord Jim (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 054
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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…
The Inheritors
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The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It loo…
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
Read by Peter Dann
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to ru…
Almayer's Folly (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad was born in former Poland, spent part of his childhood exiled in Russia because of his father's Polish nationalist political a…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
Typhoon (version 2)
Read by Anthony Ogus
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…
The Rescue
Read by Peter Dann
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
Tales of Unrest (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is …
The Rover
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This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of …
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
A Set of Six
Read by Peter Dann
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
A Personal Record
Read by Peter Dann
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way thr…
'Twixt Land and Sea
Read by Peter Dann
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…
Chance (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
Youth (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
Tales of Hearsay
Read by Peter Dann
In the time of Napoleon, a thoughtful and romantic young Russian officer finds himself asked to do something unthinkable. In 1868, a Polish …
Typhoon and Other Stories
Read by Peter Dann
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
The Inheritors (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
An invading group from the Fourth Dimension takes over a corrupt Earth - Summary by Mark Leder
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085
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"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …
Within The Tides
Read by Peter Dann
A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the South Pacific in hope of locating the daughter's wrongl…
Romance
Read by Mark Leder
Second of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. The hero and narrator, John Kemp, gets involved with smugglers, Caribbean pirates, …
Under Western Eyes (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
"But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings." Set in St Petersburg and Geneva, this a…
The Shadow-Line (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
In this engaging and well-crafted novella, an older man recalls how a combination of obscure personal impulses and diabolical co-incidences …
First Chapter Collection 005
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LibriVox First Chapter Collection 005 - a collection of the first chapters of 15 different books, fiction and nonfiction, mostly English but…
Victory (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…
Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations
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This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…
Gaspar Ruiz
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This story takes place during the wars of South American independence against Spanish rule. Gaspar Ruiz, a former Spanish soldier thrust int…
The Nature of a Crime
Read by Mark Leder
The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…
Notes on Life and Letters
Read by Peter Dann
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…
The Rover (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Possessed "of a passion weary of itself", elderly ex-privateer Peyrol is driven by "a sudden impulse of scorn, of magnanimity…